Sites' Yahoo reports move on wire service
Stories veteran foreign correspondent Kevin Sites is writing for Yahoo! News are now available on Scripps Howard News Service. Sites is traveling the world for Yahoo! News and plans to visit every major global conflict. The first story Scripps is moving is from Iraq and details the battle to rebuild Fallujah one year after the major fighting in that city. Scripps also moved an introduction to Sites, which you can read below.
New stories from a war correspondent on Scripps
Scripps Howard News Service
Editors:
Stories and photos from veteran foreign correspondent Kevin Sites are now available on Scripps Howard News Service. Sites is traveling the world for Yahoo! News and plans to visit every major global conflict.
Sites is currently in Iraq, and his first story _ distributed today by Scripps Howard _ was written from Fallujah, one year after the major fighting there, which he also covered. The story is slugged HOTZONE.
Since the 2003 invasion, Sites has spent about 15 months in Iraq, usually three to four months at a stretch working for CNN, NBC and now for Yahoo! News. He has embedded with 10 different U.S. military units as well as with Kurdish militia in nearly every region of the country.
Working for NBC News in November 2004, Sites videotaped a U.S. Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi insurgent in a Fallujah mosque. After the video's airing, Sites was both praised as a journalist and vilified as a traitor in the Marine unit in which he was embedded and in his country.
Sites' controversial and award-winning war blog, www.kevinsites.net, was one of the first to combine text, digital images and audio to provide readers with an intimate, behind-the-lines look at the war in Iraq and how it was being covered.
In 2004, Sites was honored with The Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism from the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. He was recently nominated for a national Emmy Award for the same story. Wired magazine named Sites as the recipient of its RAVE Award _ the first ever for blogging.
As a CNN correspondent, Sites and his team were captured by Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen militia while attempting to be the first Western journalists to reach Tikrit during the initial invasion of Iraq. Before that he spent nearly six months in Afghanistan, covering the Northern and Eastern Alliance forces before and after the fall of the Taliban.
As a producer for NBC News, Sites received an Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of the Kosovo war and was nominated for a national Emmy for contributions to a series on landmines.
He also served as broadcast lecturer at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and was named distinguished lecturer by the California Faculty Association. While there, he initiated a joint research project with Xybernaut Inc. to modify wearable computers for solo digital reporting.
He has worked in local, cable and network news, including ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley." Sites has a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
A native of Geneva, Ohio, Sites lives in Southern California.
Find reporting from "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone" at http://hotzone.yahoo.com
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